Bible Names

Mattaniah: meaning of the name

Mattaniah means “gift, or hope, of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Mattaniah in Hebrew and Greek

מַתַּנְיָה H4983

Mattanyâh (mat-tan-yaw') — Mattanjah, the name of ten Israelites

or מַתַּנְיָהוּ; from H4976 (מַתָּן) and H3050 (יָהּ); gift of Jah;

People named Mattaniah in the Bible

Mattaniah in Scripture

“Mattaniah” appears in 16 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Kings 24:17

    And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

  • 1 Chronicles 9:15

    And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;

  • 1 Chronicles 25:4

    Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti–ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth:

  • 1 Chronicles 25:16

    The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

  • 2 Chronicles 20:14

    Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the Lord in the midst of the congregation;

  • 2 Chronicles 29:13

    And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:

  • Ezra 10:26

    And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.

  • Ezra 10:27

    And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.